unto God. And to this end the Creation is all laid out upon man: for not man for it, but the creature is made for Man. But as to the nations which did not so much as lift up their eyes unto Heaven, nor give thanks to their Maker, nor would see the light of Truth, but are as blind mice hidden in the deep of Folly: justly hath the Word accounted them as a drop from the cask,* and as the make-weight of the balance and as nothing;* to be so far useful and meet for the righteous, as the stubble is of
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